#Download opendns dnscrypt update
Try it out and let me know the results from your city/ISP, and I will update this post. I tested it myself and worked pretty well. Update: there is this tool that you can run from your own location to compare the performance of these providers.
We used mostly VPS providers + some broadband locations to try to query their DNS from as many places as we could. We ran our tests from 18 locations from around the globe.
The Privacy option above is based on the providers promise to do not log or share your DNS requests. That's a quick feature breakdown between them regarding their privacy options: Comodo DNS 8.26.56.26: Old player that blocks malicious domains.Yandex DNS 77.88.8.7: Old player that blocks malicious domains.New player that blocks access to adult content. CleanBrowsing 185.228.168.168: Private and security aware.Norton DNS 199.85.126.20: Old player that blocks malicious domains and is integrated with their Antivirus.OpenDNS 208.67.222.222: Old player that blocks malicious domains and offers the option to block adult content.New player that blocks access to malicious domains. Quad9 9.9.9.9: Private and security aware.CloudFlare 1.1.1.1: Private and unfiltered.Google 8.8.8.8: Private and unfiltered.
#Download opendns dnscrypt free
Those were the top 8 free DNS providers that we chose to evaluate:
Let's compare them and see how fast they are from across the world.
Now we have an even more interesting playing field: Google's 8.8.8.8, Quad9’s 9.9.9.9 and CloudFlare's 1.1.1.1, in addittion to OpenDNS's 208.67.222.222 and a few other niche providers as options for us to use. It supports DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS by default, which makes it even more interesting. CloudFlare, one of the companies that know the most about Internet performance recently launched their own free DNS resolver. some many options… I love options …Īnd things just got better. It was just after Quad9 had launched and I was trying to decide which one to use and recommend to families and friends. DNS Resolvers Performance compared: CloudFlare x Google x Quad9 x OpenDNSĪ couple of months ago I did a performance comparison between some of the top free DNS Resolvers available.